Word: deconstructionism
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Gov jock? Study the effects of your own model of tyranny on a tin of cookies. If lit is your thing, experience deconstruction in a concrete way.
And what, besides oversubscription, did the two have in common? They were two of the four courses on literary theory--arguably one of the hottest tickets on the intellectual scene today--that undergraduates can even get a glimpse of. These four courses, including one each on "Semiotics" and "Deconstruction" are...
These risible convolutions are undercut by another novelistic device: the interweaving of the dialogue with "spoken thoughts," asides from each character to himself and the audience. Form tangles with content here. Thematically, Strange Interlude is a tragedy about the dilemma of convention vs. desire, decorous actions vs. lancing passions. Formally...
Semiotics had a different influence here than that of straight public relations because it captured the language of the people itself instead of preventing the government from portraying Solidarity as an illegitimate organization. But the danger in employing semioticians was that they wanted to take the process of breaking apart...
Necessarily, such a self-conscious form as punk will involve parody; as for the doomed Adrian Leverkuhn of Mann's Doctor Faustus, everything is a parody, of previous forms or even of itself. Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary...